Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainA larger share of residents with no religion than 99% of Canadian towns: 71%
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (6.6%), Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap is below 97% of Canadian towns. Here, 82% of households live in a single-detached house. With a median age of 44.8, Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap is older than nearly two thirds of Canadian towns. Statistics Canada puts the town’s population at 3,672 for July 2025.
Faster growth than 60% of Canadian towns: Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap changed by +6% since 2016
The figures are the 2021 Census’s, except where another date is given. How the population moved between the last two censuses, and since.
Change, 2016 to 2021
Medians for comparison: +4% across Canada’s towns; +6% across British Columbia’s towns. By July 2025, the estimate had risen a further 10%.
14% of residents are under 15, below 75% of Canadian towns
Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
60–64 is the most common age band: 10% of residents, 1.4 times the share across Canada’s towns. By way of comparison, 16% of residents are under 15 across Canada’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 19% in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, 44.8. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 112 men for every 100 women.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 74% of Canadian towns
Private households by type and size.
Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
The share of one-parent families trails 96% of Canadian towns: 4.3%. The census found that 29% of households are one person living alone in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap.
A larger share of common-law partners than 84% of Canadian towns: 20%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
21% of adults are single and have never married; the typical town has 27%. Set beside that, 11% of residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap sits below 65% of Canadian towns for renter households (19%)
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. Prices, rents and shelter costs are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Owners and renters · share of households
When homes were built · share of homes
Just over one in ten homes need major repairs, against a typical 5.8%. Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. Measured more widely, 25% of households rent their home across Canada’s towns.
Household income at the median: $84,000 a year
Census incomes are for 2020, the year before the census, when CERB and other pandemic benefits topped up many households. Household income before tax: the median, and households by income group.
Households by income · share of households
The middle household in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap had $84,000 before tax, near the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). The middle household across British Columbia’s towns has $87,000 before tax. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 31% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap sits above 55% of Canadian towns for residents who moved in within the year (12%)
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 20%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Recent arrivals are 32% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. Against that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across Canada’s towns. 13% of residents are immigrants.
In Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, 6.6% of residents have an Indigenous identity, more than in 78% of Canadian towns
Visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion, as residents answered the census.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
The share of visible minority residents is 2.9%, against 15% across Canada’s towns. As a yardstick, 2.8% of residents have an Indigenous identity across Canada’s towns.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap: 5% of residents have French as their mother tongue, above 71% of Canadian towns
Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
At home: English 96%, French 1.8%. The usual figure: 1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue across Canada’s towns. 14% of residents speak English and French, more than in 69% of Canadian towns.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64 make up 24% in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, less than in 57% of Canadian towns
From no certificate to a master’s: residents 25 to 64.
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Without any certificate: 9.8% of 25- to 64-year-olds (typical: 9.5%).
An employment rate of 60%
These rates date from May 2021, during the pandemic, and run lower than a normal year’s. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
At 60%, more residents are in work than the typical 58% across Canada’s towns.
Of 41 towns its size (3,621 to 3,724 people), the 16th oldest
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
Median ages here range from 31.5 in West Kildonan Industrial to 58 in Piedmont. In age, Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap keeps company with Saint-Sulpice (44.4), Parkview West (44.6), Sainte-Claire (45.2) and Kensington (47).
Of the 5 towns nearest Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, 2 are older
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each links to its own page. Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 5–95 km out.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap | 3,672 | — | 44.8 | 19% | 13% |
| Golden | 4,433 | 4.5 km | 39.6 | 16% | 11% |
| Improvement District No. 9 Banff | 1,144 | 63.0 km | 44.8 | 15% | 14% |
| Electoral Area G, East Kootenay | 1,952 | 86.0 km | 52 | 25% | 8.8% |
| Revelstoke | 9,464 | 89.5 km | 37.6 | 14% | 12% |
| Radium Hot Springs | 1,489 | 94.8 km | 51.6 | 26% | 17% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against British Columbia’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of British Columbia’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- The census’s own words. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
Questions about Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s residents
How diverse is Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
Immigrants make up 13% of residents, against 17% across Canada’s towns. 2.9% are members of a visible minority, and 6.6% are First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
What religion are people in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
Christian: 28%. No religion: 71%. Another religion: 0.9%.
Is Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap good for families?
Across Canada’s towns, a typical 16% of residents are under 15; here, 14%. 57% of households are couple families and 4.3% one-parent families. Schools near Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
$84,000 before tax, in 2020: the middle household’s income in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap (Canada’s towns: $86,000).
What is the population of Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
Statistics Canada estimates 3,672 residents for July 2025; the 2021 Census counted 3,325 in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, 6% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
44.8 is the median age, older than 66% of Canadian towns. Under 15: 14%. 65 and over: 19%.
Is Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap bilingual?
14% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 85% English only. French is the mother tongue of 5%.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population · Statistics Canada, population estimates for 1 July 2025 (table 17-10-0155). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).